Poems from the ‘Book of matches’

I clear decided to use twain verse forms from the book of matches, Those bastards in their mansions, Ive made discover a will and the meter Kid to equality and contrast. Simon Armitage wrote Book of matches in 1993. It is a selection of meters with extinct titles. Each poem is meant to be read in the time that it takes for a match to burn down. on that point is a pun in the title, a packet from which we tear out the matches a book, but this is also a book in the rule sense, with words for us to read.Both of these poems atomic number 18 fourteen lines long, but they argon non strictly a sonnet in form. Ive made out a will has irregular rhymes, both full and half rhymes. It is split so that there is a premier(prenominal) block of eight lines, then a second block of six lines, which is split into a four and a two. The final section is split so that it ends in a bridge equal a Shakespearean sonnet. Some may argue that this poem is not a sonnet because it does not follow a pompous sonnet form, such(prenominal) as a Shakespearean sonnet or a Petrarchan sonnet.Those bastards in their mansions has some weird features to its structure. Ten of the first xi lines end in an unstressed syllable, and there are some rhymes such as ditches/britches, porches and torches, and there is the secern-rhyme in shackles/ankles. At the end of the poem, there is unretentive lines and true rhyme on one syllable, sun and gun. This may suggest the power of the shadowy outlaw, who eludes his wealthy foes.Like Those bastards in their mansions, in the poem Kid, every line ends with an unstressed syllable. Every line ends with the -er sound. The poem starts off with heavy syllables to mark that Robin, the persona of the poem is annoyed. The heavy syllables are almost like Robin is shouting, and they show that he is in a mood. It is almost comical how the poet manages to end every line with -er. As the poem progresses, the reader wonders how the poet is able to continue with this pattern. The poem is ideally suited to be read aloud, as the ending lines accumulate, the listeners wonder how the reader will prolong up.Ive made out a will is astir(predicate) an organ donor with a reservation. The speaker in the poem explains how he has decided to donate his embody to the National Health Service. He says how he is going to donate everything unconnected from his internality. Not only is he going to donate his organs, but he has also made out a will so that his wishes are taken out after he has died. He lists all of the separate that he is sure they can use, but some things would only be profitable for research, such as veins and nerves.In Those bastards in their mansions, the persona of the poem has a hatred against people. He mentions words such as mansions, palaces and castles. Here this is belike a large exaggeration, but it could be taken literally as the poem could be set in the past, there is mention of keen torches and cuffs and shackles.Lik e in Those bastards in their mansions, in Kid, Robin has a grudge against Batman. Simon Armitage imagines that Robin has separated from Batman and that he has succeeded and that Batman has turned into a failure. It says how Batman has nothing in the walk-in larder. This is the opposite to Those bastards in their mansions because in that poem the persona has nothing compared to the people he has a grudge against and is jealous.At the end of the first eight-line section, the speaker concludes his list with the one exception, but not the cheek, they can progress that alone. And at the end of the poem, he repeats this, but not the pendulum, the ticker/ countenance that where it stops or hangs he does not say why he does not want his heart to be utilize again, maybe it is because it is the part of him that keeps him alive, and he does not think that it would be right if someone else used this part. To the national health, the heart is the most valuable organ, so we do not know why th e reader wants so much to hold onto his heart, he emphasises how much he wants his heart by the amount of times that he says that he does not want it to be used.This poem has a bright series of metaphors, which are in lists. The metaphors portray different things. Some of the images have medical overtones, tubes, stitches and wounds. These are quite graphic words and show us that the reader predicts dying maybe in an accident, and that he could receive surgery. in that respect are words to do with workshops such as glues and chassis. Others respond to nourishment or cookery such as jellies, syrups, loaf and gallonof bilberry soup. thither are a lot of different images only for one thing. The outline is known as the chassis, cage, and cathedral of bone. Throughout the second part of the poem, there is an extended metaphor. This is one of a clock. Here there is loops and coils and crockets and springs and rods, the twines and cords and strands, the face, the case, the cogs and the hands, the face and the hands are already words for split of the human body, but otherwise parts of this phrase can be worked in to go along with other parts of the human body. In the last two lines he says how he does not want his heart to be touches, he compares this with the pendulum, the ticker. These are the parts of the clock that makes everything work, just like the human heart. In this passage, Simon Armitage uses slews of metaphors. This is to emphasise points. For example, he uses not only pendulum, but also ticker to talk about the heart.Throughout this poem the poet describes the human body merely as lots of parts, he shows no emotion towards anything apart from the heart. This could be because the speaker sees the heart as being the most important part of a mechanism, like a pendulum in a clock. It also maybe that he value the heart as a symbol of all things that make aliveness worth living, a heart is the symbol of love, affection, energy, desire, and much more. O r, perhaps he feels that he is inside his heart, and it is like a soul, and if he gives up his heart then he is giving up his immortality.